Brute Quotes
190 Brute quotes by 153 unique authors
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It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths…
— Virginia Woolf
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...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So…
— Patrick O'Brian
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The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is…
— Milan Kundera
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i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood…
— John Gardner
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Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…
— Virginia Woolf
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One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but…
— Winona LaDuke
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To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition…
— Marcel Proust
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The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed…
— Greg L. Bahnsen
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In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than…
— Michael Behe
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I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left…
— John D. MacDonald
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Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is the twenty-first century,…
— Michael Buckley
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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here,…
— Markus Zusak
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You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up…
— Cassandra Clare
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Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I have one thing you don't,' he murmured against her neck, turning his head and nipping her earlobe. 'What?' His tongue teased her ear. 'Brute…
— Christine Feehan
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But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the…
— Thomas Paine
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A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can…
— John Edward Williams
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To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa…
— Sarah MacLean
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If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.
— Maya Angelou
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It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right…
— Neville Chamberlain
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Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
— Dalai Lama
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I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of…
— Thomas Huxley
Who Wrote These Brute Quotes
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